Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures. At least initially, I think. They hated Hannett's production (I'm not too keen on it either). I guess it must have grown on them, otherwise they wouldn't have let him do Closer.

The LAs?

Springsteen recently moaned about the 80s production on Lucky Town/Human Touch, although he said the songs were good.

At a gig I was at, Dave Gray said his first album was rubbish, which is daft as it's brilliant and all his later albums are rubbish.

I think they did dislike it briefly, but only because they hadn't liked how controlling Hammett had been in the studio and the way he'd mixed down everyone's instruments and added loads of FX, but I think they came round to the end results very quickly.

You've just got to skip 'Emily' and 'Song for Departure' is all. The rest is gorgeous, Celtic-tinged Manics at their near finest. If they can't recognize the inherent beauty of something like 'Solitude Sometimes Is' then that's on them.

But it took well over a decade to get to that point. Up until then, Cuomo HATED the record. From the Wiki:

Cuomo was embarrassed by the album's mixed reception and the confessional nature of its songs. On August 13, 1997, he wrote: "This has been a tough year. It's not just that the world has said Pinkerton isn't worth a shit, but that the Blue album wasn't either. It was a fluke. It was the video. I'm a shitty songwriter."[66] In 2001, he told Entertainment Weekly: "It's a hideous record... It was such a hugely painful mistake that happened in front of hundreds of thousands of people and continues to happen on a grander and grander scale and just won't go away. It's like getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself." By early 2008, Cuomo had reconsidered the album, saying: "Pinkerton's great. It's super-deep, brave, and authentic. Listening to it, I can tell that I was really going for it when I wrote and recorded a lot of those songs."

That band didn't make one perfect record - they made TWO. They shit on every ounce of good will after those two records, but they are so painfully great that we all forget a lot of the time that they made TWO masterpieces. And for a very long time, one of those records was considered an embarrassment by its creator.

Can you imagine? Making a record that grew to be considered a flawless work of art... and you yourself couldn't stand it? How crazy is that?

Seems like they always trash an old album to lend weight to whatever their new album is. Pretty terrible kind of marketing-minded thing to do. Only exception is harvey milk going through their entire back catalogue and trashing absolutely everything, that was hilarious.

as it does sound like people at the very end of their tether, that said I love its bleakness, nothing better than an opening line of 'It doesn't matter if we all die.' But I can't understand why he'd dislike Disintegration, there are some great lighter moments on it with Lovesong and Lullaby.

However the commonly setlisted tracks from this album like U-Mass and Subbacultcha were in fact tracks from the early Pixies days that finally got put on an album. The back half of TLM is hardly ever played and these are all Frank's songs that Kim was really resentful about.

They (he) might associate those albums with bad times, but everything I've ever read of RS in the press has said that he rates those albums highly, and that "The Figurehead" is his favourite Cure song. (Such a clichéd pick, imo.)

An artist is bound to get bored of their own stuff since they're so close to it and worked on it so long. Then have to play it over and over again. The last thing the artist did is prob always the favourite for a while since they put so much into it. Plus it doesn't matter what they think about the music, if you like it you like it.

Said that he didn't understand the point of the band having a third mode/sound (the other two being the more 'punk' material, and the EMG/TIMT-style material). Nicky posted something on Twitter about wanting to go back to the unreleased material recently though, so he's softened to it somewhat.

He's always been over-critical of his older stuff, without wanting to sound like a kiss-ass I think he's something of a perfectionist so perhaps listening to the older stuff the bits he wasn't happy with stand out more (hell, I find it easier to point out the stuff I was bad at in my previous job than what I did right)

was'nt at all keen on his debut,went back and recorded most of its songs on his next few albums.he was on the money there.
mark e smith said something along the lines of his last(ersatz gb) album being shit from start to finish.true tbh.

I like The Figurehead, in so far as I love Pornography and wouldn't change a thing on it. But I just don't get the love that song in particular receives above not only other songs on the album, but above every other Cure song! I'd rate One Hundred Years, Hanging Garden, Short Term Effect, Pornography and (especially!) A Strange Day over The Figurehead, and that's not even considering the dozens of other brilliant songs they've produced.

For me, The Figurehead, Siamese Twins and even Cold owe their greatness to their place and role in the album, and as individual songs they're nothing special. I'm not saying that they're bad or even mediocre. It's just that for me they lose all meaning outside the context of the album as a whole.

To put it another way, if were making a Cure playlist (even a playlist of their "darker", "depressing" stuff) I'd never consider The Figurehead — not because I don't like or rate the song, but because it has no place for me except where it sits in Pornography, and so when I rate it, I'm really rating the album not the song.

"I'm embarrassed by them. It was a time when I was trying to find my place within the business. I was figuring out who I was and where that person intersected with the world of commerce. It was like I was sitting there with a ventriloquist's dummy on my knee. And the dummy is made out of wood. And after a while you start to hate each other."

Have to say I completely disagree with him & would take Small Change over any of his later work, much as I enjoy that too.

They don't like their early hair metal records of which there are several, to the point where they don't even list them in their discography. Which is fair enough, they are shit. They should have just changed their name when they got all cool and heavy, but it was a shame they had a really cool name I suppose.

I liked it when it came out, the problem was that it was disappointing in comparison to everything else they did and they went a bit nuts on song length and production. I thought it was alright actually, I wasn't looking forward to some of the songs but they are better than I thought they would be. If they had skipped a few songs, put some B-sides from around the time on instead and done less cocaine, it would have been much better. Critics would still have disliked it though.

as I haven't been a fan for a long time but the Chili Peppers seem to not like albums pre Blood Sex, which I don't get as Up Lift Mo Fo & Mother Milk are their best albums, and Freaky Styley is really good too. In fact they haven't made a good album since Mothers Milk.

as they played round & round a few times last year (eg at ibiza rocks)
it is more a technical thing for them rather than not liking the album, took them ages to reprogram the perfect kiss to fit the key barney sings in these days for example
we'll see more of the older songs dropped in from now

It got ecstatic reviews pretty much across the board when it came out, until people realised that, underneath the bombastic production & 10 million guitar overdubs, there wasn't a lot of substance. Agree that if you pruned some of the shitter tracks (Magic Pie, Don't Go Away, Girl in the Dirty Shirt etc) & replaced them with Stay Young, you'd have a much better album. Definitely a cocaine album.